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Bush: I'd rather be right than popular
CNN ^ | 07/07/06

Posted on 07/06/2006 8:33:28 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

Bush: I'd rather be right than popular

President, wife sit down for wide-ranging birthday interview

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- President Bush isn't troubled by some of the weakest approval ratings of his presidency, he said Thursday in a wide-ranging birthday interview with CNN's "Larry King Live."

"When history looks back, I'd rather be judged as solving problems and being correct, rather than being popular," Bush said.

"The president that chases the opinion poll is the president that will have failed policy," Bush said in an exclusive joint interview along with his wife, Laura, at the White House.

Some members of Congress are nervous about the effect Bush's political problems might have on their own fortunes in this fall's midterm elections.

But Bush predicted that Republicans would keep their majorities in the House and Senate, "Because we're right on winning this war on terror, and we've got a good economic record," he said. "People are working under the leadership of the Bush administration and the Congress."

When it comes to the most controversial single decision of his presidency -- invading Iraq -- the president told King he would make the same choice again, even knowing that Saddam Hussein's regime did not have weapons of mass destruction.

"We removed a tyrant," Bush said. "He was an enemy of the United States who harbored terrorists and who had the capacity, at the very minimum, to make weapons of mass destruction. And he was a true threat."

The president also said he believes recent missile tests by North Korean leader Kim Jong Il could present an opening to rally international pressure on the Pyongyang regime.

"I think he wants us to either fear him or pay attention to him. And I view it as an opportunity ...

(Excerpt) Read more at edition.cnn.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 911; awesomepresident; bush; bush43; bushdoctrine; excellent; gwb; iraq; missile; northkorea; threadhijack
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1 posted on 07/06/2006 8:33:31 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Outstanding!

2 posted on 07/06/2006 8:35:28 PM PDT by Southack (Media Bias means that Castro won't be punished for Cuban war crimes against Black Angolans in Africa)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

President George W Bush: THE LEADER. I am very proud of our President. God bless him.


3 posted on 07/06/2006 8:35:53 PM PDT by jveritas (Support The Commander in Chief in Times of War)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"When history looks back, I'd rather be judged as solving problems and being correct, rather than being popular," Bush said.

When this season's fickle storms of public opinion have faded into memory, and after the prevailing foul spirit has been defeated, you will be remembered among the greatest, President Bush of the great -- you and your cabinet.

4 posted on 07/06/2006 8:36:24 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Rock on, my beautiful America!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

...good man. Go, Mr. President, and take care of business in Iran!


5 posted on 07/06/2006 8:36:40 PM PDT by familyop ("Either you're with us, or you're with the terrorists." --President Bush)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Well GW you are right on many things, but your shamnesty bill needs to go.


6 posted on 07/06/2006 8:36:45 PM PDT by lone star annie
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To: the invisib1e hand

/choppy grammar


7 posted on 07/06/2006 8:37:03 PM PDT by the invisib1e hand (Rock on, my beautiful America!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

This is the kind of thinking that I want in a President.


8 posted on 07/06/2006 8:38:29 PM PDT by blitzgig
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To: TigerLikesRooster

bttt


9 posted on 07/06/2006 8:39:57 PM PDT by nopardons
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Excellent.


10 posted on 07/06/2006 8:40:01 PM PDT by KJC1 (Happy Birthday, President Bush!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

What it's like to be a pityfull dim DEM!~}

Actual Healine:


In Conn., Lieberman Defends Seat, War Stance


11 posted on 07/06/2006 8:40:22 PM PDT by funkywbr
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To: jveritas

AMEN!

How wonderful is it to have someone who thinks and acts like President Bush, rather than someone who won't decide what to have for breakfast before a poll is taken (8 years of THAT was quite enough).

God bless this president!


12 posted on 07/06/2006 8:40:46 PM PDT by Fudd Fan (Help get Murtha out of Congress- donate at http://www.irey.com/)
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To: TigerLikesRooster
"The president that chases the opinion poll is the president that will have failed policy,"

That sounds like a back-handed slap at a former president, and poll-watching politican who went by the initials "Bill Clinton".
13 posted on 07/06/2006 8:41:15 PM PDT by adorno
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To: TigerLikesRooster
This alone shows why history will be favorable to President Bush.

Another reason is because I will be one of those writing it.

14 posted on 07/06/2006 8:42:13 PM PDT by COEXERJ145 (Free Republic is Currently Suffering a Pandemic of “Bush Derangement Syndrome.”)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Clinton wanted to be popular and governed accordingly. He left a mess in North Korea and other places. George Bush is a great President.


15 posted on 07/06/2006 8:42:27 PM PDT by Merry
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To: the invisib1e hand
"When this season's fickle storms of public opinion have faded into memory, and after the prevailing foul spirit has been defeated, you will be remembered among the greatest, President Bush of the great -- you and your cabinet"

Yup.
Who even remembers that FDR had some of the lowest poll ratings since poling begun, during the grim moments of WWII?
Today FDR is invoked all the time, especially by the RATS.
Governing by opinion polls isn't leading, it's instead, being led by drive-by media noise.
16 posted on 07/06/2006 8:42:31 PM PDT by Jameison
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To: TigerLikesRooster

There are times when this President brings a tear to my eyes.


17 posted on 07/06/2006 8:42:34 PM PDT by Mad_Tom_Rackham (Liberalism's main product is Destruction and Death.)
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To: jveritas
Hear!!! Hear!!!

I would rather be wrong and strong then weak and right too.
18 posted on 07/06/2006 8:42:45 PM PDT by do the dhue (I hope y'all will help bail me out of jail after I dot Alan Colmes's eyes.)
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To: LUV W
Ain't he a little tease???


19 posted on 07/06/2006 8:42:52 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country. What else needs to be said?)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Sounds like he came across very well here.


20 posted on 07/06/2006 8:43:44 PM PDT by Republican Wildcat
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